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The persistent current, i.e. the equilibrium direct electric current circulating in realistic rings, some authors interpreted as dissipationless in spite of non-zero resistance of the rings, whereas the other one suppose that this current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-06-29 V. L. Gurtovoi , A. I. Ilin , A. V. Nikulov , V. A. Tulin

We use the Lanczos method to calculate the variance of the number of energy levels in an energy window of width E below the Fermi energy for non-interacting disordered electrons on a thin three-dimensional ring threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Axel Voelker , Peter Kopietz

We study the behavior of persistent current of relativistic electrons on a one dimensional ring in presence of attractive/repulsive scattering potentials. In particular, we investigate the persistent current in accordance with the strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sumit Ghosh , Arijit Saha

We present numerical results for the zero temperature persistent currents carried by interacting spinless electrons in disordered one dimensional continuous rings. The disorder potential is described by a collection of delta-functions at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Cohen , R. Berkovits , A. Heinrich

The ground state of a phase-coherent mesoscopic system is sensitive to its environment. We investigate the persistent current of a ring with a quantum dot which is capacitively coupled to an external circuit with a dissipative impedance. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pascal Cedraschi , Vadim V. Ponomarenko , Markus Buttiker

Persistent currents flowing through disordered mesoscopic rings threaded by a magnetic flux are investigated. Models of fermions with on-site interactions (Hubbard model) or models of spinless fermions with nearest neighbor interactions are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Georges Bouzerar , Didier Poilblanc

We have computed persistent currents in a disordered mesoscopic ring in the presence of small electron-electron interactions, treated in first order perturbation theory. We have investigated both a contact (Hubbard) and a nearest neighbour…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Michel Ramin , Bertrand Reulet , Helene Bouchiat

The persistent currents driven by the pure Aharonov-Bohm type magnetic field in mesoscopic normal metal or semiconducting cylinders are studied. A two-dimensional (2D) Fermi surfaces are characterized by four parameters. Several conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Stebelski , M. Szopa , E. Zipper

In equilibrium, the number of conduction electrons in a solid substance depends on the conformation of the atoms in the substance. When a magnetic field is applied, it takes time for the system to come to a new equilibrium with a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-06 Zeev Vager

We calculate the average persistent current in a mesoscopic metal ring threaded by a magnetic flux in the diffusive regime. It is shown that the classical electromagnetic energy leads to a {\it{universal}} average current of the order of $…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-23 Peter Kopietz

We explore the behavior of persistent current and low-field magnetic response in mesoscopic one-channel rings and multi-channel cylinders within the tight-binding framework. We show that the characteristic properties of persistent current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-20 Santanu K. Maiti

In this work, I present measurements of persistent currents in normal metal rings performed with cantilever torsional magnetometry. With this technique, the typical persistent current (the component that varies randomly from ring to ring)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 William E. Shanks

A semi-phenomenological model is proposed to study dynamics and stedy states of magnetic fluxes and currents in mesoscopic rings and cylinders at non-zero temperature. The model is based on a Langevin equation for flux subject to zero-mean…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dajka , J. Luczka , M. Szopa , E. Zipper

A mesoscopic conducting ring pierced by magnetic flux is known to support the persistent electron current. Here we propose possibility of the persistent current in the ring made of the perfect crystalline insulator. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonia Moskova , Martin Mosko , Andrej Gendiar

We consider the effect of an oscillating potential on the single-particle spectrum and the time-averaged persistent current of a one-dimensional phase-coherent mesoscopic ring with a magnetic flux. We show that in a ring with an even number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

An expression for the conductance of interacting electrons in the diffusive regime as a function of the ensemble averaged persistent current and the compressibility of the system is presented. This expression involves only ground-state…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Richard Berkovits , Yshai Avishai

Recent discovery of mesoscopic electronic structures, in particular the carbon nanotubes, made necessary an investigation of what effect may helical symmetry of the conductor (metal or semiconductor) have on the persistent current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Iskin , I. O. Kulik

We study analytically the effect of a correlated random potential on the persistent current in a one-dimensional ring threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, using an Anderson tight-binding model. In our model, the system of $N=2M$ atomic sites…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Heinrichs

The behavior of persistent current in a mesoscopic cylinder threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux $\phi$ is carefully investigated within a Hartree-Fock mean field approach. We examine the combined effect of second-neighbor hopping integral and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Santanu K. Maiti

Persistent currents circulate continuously without requiring external power sources. Here, we extend their theory to include dissipation within the framework of non-Hermitian quantum Hamiltonians. Using Green's function formalism, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Pei-Xin Shen , Zhide Lu , Jose L. Lado , Mircea Trif